Paper cut (Nanjing paper cut)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: paper cut (Nanjing paper cut)

Applicant: Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province

Project No.: 315

Project No.: Ⅶ - 16

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Jiangsu Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province

Protection unit: Nanjing Arts and Crafts Corporation

Brief introduction of paper cut (Nanjing paper cut)

Applicant: Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province

Nanjing paper-cut is mainly popular in Nanjing and its surrounding areas in Jiangsu Province. According to historical records such as baixiasuoyan written by Gan Xi in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, Nanjing paper-cut was very popular in the early Ming Dynasty. In the 1950s, Nanjing folk paper-cut production cooperatives and folk arts and crafts factories were established successively to produce and export paper-cut.

Nanjing paper-cut's personality is very prominent. It combines the extensive northern paper-cut with the delicate Southern paper-cut. There are flowers in the flowers, there are questions in the title, there are details in the rough, there are spirits in the clumsy, and the artistic form is very beautiful. The traditional varieties of paper-cut in Nanjing mainly include Xihua, douxianghua, menjian and embroidery patterns including shoe flower. Douxianghua paper-cut is unique in China and is a kind of genius creation. It fully reflects the unique style of Nanjing paper-cut and enriches the treasure house of Chinese folk art. Nanjing paper-cut does not need to draw a draft when it is created. After it is cut, the lines are continuous, just like "one stroke". It is very skillful.

In the process of the development of paper-cut in Nanjing, there are two outstanding artists in the history of modern Chinese paper-cut. One is Zhang Jigen, known as "Shenjian Zhang", who has unique skills and is good at innovation; the other is Hu Jiazhi, who is over 100 years old and still can create scissors.

With the changes of the times, the paper-cut artists in Nanjing are in trouble under the pressure of life. Some of them are forced to change their profession, and some of their creations are affected. In this situation, the number of employees of Nanjing paper-cut is decreasing, the inheritors are older, there is no successor, the inheritance of paper-cut skills is difficult, and the endangered situation is becoming more and more serious.